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SIR RICHARD BMNIE AND THE MAWS- TRATES - OF THE CINQUE,PORT. . , „ The following is a 'COPY of a, letter receivett by the Mayor of Sandwich (one of the Cinque Veda) fte%air nichard,Birnie, in answer : to it lettet fwi n t h e tamer, de man rind been *ported in the roandink an explanation of public journals to have, falleh fi- dm h m, reflecting on the abiracter of the Cinque Ports Magistrates : now-naI:ET, 'NOV; 1.7. eta--in reply t'J Your letter of the 15th, lum ready to admit that in the complaints of our men for the want of assistance and co ff operatiori, bone are applicable to the town' and port of, Sand. It is not true.that I Said,: all or .generally,—but certainly five or aix of our officers have complained against several ; and yearw back tide was stated to the Lord Warden, on a complaint of their acting on a warrant witbacked. To Wm. Cocking, Esq. MiyofdiSrindwieh, Kent. I nt'n, -sir, Your obedient humble Servant, R. BIRNIE. (From the Cinque Ports liquid.) LETTER TO SIR It. 13111N1E. Dovxit, Nov. 15. 4 Stn---The slanderous libel which' appeared m the liforniny Herald, of the 81st of October, kst, against the whole body of Cinque Ports _Magistrates has naturally excited great and general indignation.. 1-laving for many years held the honourable. otliee, of Solicitor of the Cinque Ports, and fur 3 t years filled the :naive situatinn of Town Clerk Of Dover (which !titter office I Intro latsdy resigned), fete perhaps have felt it - more keenly than my. self, from a thorough conviction, founded on my own experience tit the falsehood of the charges, This newspaper libel is grounded on what appears, by the Po lies Reports, to have fallen from you on the exavatination, on the 28th October, of the persons charged with the murder of Richard Morgan, a Preventive Service Romeo. if the report on that minatinn he correct, you stated that one of your officers ha IX leged he seldom could get his warrants efieinst sitkugglors backed by the Migistrittes of the Cinque because the greatest 'tart Of them were smugglers; You ihrther ethleil, that, live years afro, the gaol 'at Meer NVits broken open at mid-day by the flouggielci who took tUrtecti of their companions that were - then confined out in trittv;ol....ehe )lagistrates looking on at the time. The manner i! . .t which the Report states these circumstances to have been vrolattioued by you, appears to evince your biliefuf them, it yeas therefore my intention to have sooner eildressed you on the *Wirt% but circumstances unnecessary to detail, and whirl, partly Intel reference to an intended prosecution against. the Evrearleipirs of the Morning nie to postpone iktiog Your farther remarks, however, as reported iii the Times of yesterday, on warrants being'required to apprehend smuggle:, u,, the coast of Kent, require stone immediate notice - of these delis :r ed slanderous attacks ; and, as Solicittir of the Cinque Port,, 1 teel this painful duty tube cast on me, - and that I aro botmd to ful fil it; repugnant as it is to toy feelings and habits to obtrude my. self on public attention. If the !‘ Times" report ha correct, you directed your oincers, they found it necessary to get warrants ' c o o l e d by all y of the l oca l Magistrates, nut to apply to any oc the Megisttitees residing in, the t Pmts, but to some of the County Magistrates, whom you knew to be bonoUrablri men ; but with legard to others !evidently alluding to the eintrae Ports I , ,lty, , )kit'ates) you had a different opi nion, You are then made to state as a fact grounded on the oath of Bond, one of yaw eonitables, that on his applying to the Mayor of one of the . Cinque Port. Towns to back a warrant, the Mayor not only millets] to do so, but went and informed the wife of the smuggler, that she mightwarit'her bordnind to keep out of the way. Aly official situation gave tne opportunities of knowing person ally the greater part of the Magistrates of the Cinque Ports ; and what your constable stated as to the difficulty of getting wat•• rants baeked, fuel of the 51s'gistr a t es o f . th e Ci nque P orts b e i ng smogg'Vrs, 1 have no hesitation in pronouncing to be e• knost gross atUi rtinbunticti slander. That some ontiiir more instances, of the nature alluded to, may have occurred, I admit is possible ; but ' feel: moat confident th at , if investigated, they will be !Om to be very kw, and only tmtier eireuMstances which May adthit of ex planation ; and come better proof than the assertion of the onsta kenst he adduced betbre I can give credit to so grave Q charge, evert Against a single i :cannot but lament that a MagisArnte of your experience, aml with your Chartif tf:r fur tlisesition, should not have thought ueeessery to require some 'attiiger geountli, before, by your *auction, you gave EtivAr . wy 1.0 109 iicßotts an attack,. on the 11111- iistritvy. It would riot have lie,ct le,,seoing y,o4v MAW, and it surely would buys been more imientinitit to the principles of Jib tire, if you loud withheld your statetiun, until you had directed some itortiry, which you had the ready -mane of doing, into OW biii thet and diameters of the Cinque Ports Magistratr?. Had you done so, the obloquy which, through your observations, the public prints, have. heaped pp the Magistracy of twelve corpo rate towns, (nt which the Clique Porta are composed,) Might hSie been spared. You would, h ave f oun d th a t these,gentletneo (Among whom are several County Magistrates) are men of inteli genCe and high reapeetability, of InyA pristeiOes, as zealous in ren dering to the enuntrY their gratuitous services as magistrates, and as tree froth smuggling habits, as you, or any other salaried (I do not mean the term Offensively) Police Magistrates under Ciovern- With , regard to the strong and offensive remarks imputed to you in the " Times," I take upon myself to my they are groundless and unjust, as applied to the Cinque Porte generally, and if there he any instance wherein they can apply to individualif, they must, lam convinced, be extremely rare irulectL If you considered the testimony of your constable, Bowl, to be correct, I take the li berty of suggesting to ypu, whether you would nut better have per ibrmed your puhlia duty, by submitting this most flagrant instarcc of Miacooduet, with the of ruler's name; to the proper Govern- meat authorities; in tull,r that the deliwpient might have met his whir punishment . ; than by using it as the,menns of publicly idly iniatiiiug the NV 14 ot,E. of the Cinque Ports Magistrates. The manner in tairli your remarks were introduced yester day appears to me somewhat singular. It is not, I presume, Year usual practice in giving directions to your officers for the vrecution of warrants, to do so publicly; but thin course was taken yesterday, expressly, as appears to me, to revive the offensive i►nputations on the Magistrates. Had these remarks proceeded from , any one less experienced than 'Ourself, end not standing so high in the public estimation nv you deterveitiy 11, ) , I should have beeti led to infer that they did not spring from a aernar of pnldie duty, b ut that *nine lurking feeling of persOnal pique, .or private reseninient, had prompted therr4 • • • • So far as these aecttaatiomi may be eanaittered t the Dover Alagistrates, I can matt conettientiouely declare,- on My long experience as Town that they are utterly false and nor minded. I never, in any single instance, knew Or heard of any Magistrate of Dover. being engaged,. directly or indirectly, in tort; t Agliug trensections; nor did I ever know tie hear of any relived or hesitation in barking or granting werrants against pt rsone charged with otTences against the revenue; nor - did I ever observe ,eity Want of seal or any relaxation of ditty in enthreing the Revenue Laws. I hope I shall iro , ,t. be considered by the. INiver Alagistrates its comptmitis. stag their digitity in appealing to the Offitvre of the blockade' sr,:lee, an d t if the Ile venue , in iaarrobor at ion of my amer td et, The I.tte gallant and indefatigable. ot r t n ~1 1, : e hirti l e ee 'tes:thr;l l :) ,"i to thc>ir truth; a,t,l so it . I iiii;h3s 111111, I moot unhesii.rtinggty ly to one Wl,otit 1 tun r( )114 to number in du' htt id Inv t;r thant of tl i tefla Making lire of This 0111,-er"i'• pre ventive szei vi, e, god, "`"'" "n the YtIA Ilflit active eNertionx, bid more frequent rive., Mill I perhap s tatty ofyi cer • • - 0111 10 the aid of the [hoer :tiagi,Alittri. TO hit . )ll ieer , thronth WbriPe activity and well 1 . .00)6 3 lilen , r Cliay, may lie istiribtf ed the appre h en sion of the men charged with the murder of Moi-• tH i !iai t l and gas, and who has so a been long stationed at I )over, I would a l I . * peal. Ile attended the exa mination on the - wee gratified - in learning fr ont him. that the el-argue lt., g4fi s cttl xeichti.,m nt h Magistrate% did not proeoed from hint, or hit Itrother Officer who attended with hint ; and that be felt the iaju,,,h,,of the general ebirge . against tha illagistracy. The Colleetot s of Cut: horns Anil Excise at I)over with their respedive 011ie/ere, w h o are ti the constant habit of applying to the Magistrates on reveon, tnttt tera, e4l, Madily tlisprtive these exertions, should -they eat liC founded in tenth. One ward with referenc4 td the breaking open the old ex* in. secure gaol in I)over, anti teeming the smugglers therefrom, about , five years ego, I was. not at Ilnyee.stt the tittle it ()centred , _ and therefore cannot speak of it of I , T O-wit knot% ledge;- -but from the utcet tomtit, evidence whit It 1 Were its* * able to ob tai ."' I have the strongeet grounds to believe that the circtimittances h ave been greatly exaggerated. , The out r age was committed by a desperate gang, all utter strangers to the towtn armed with bludgeons, who completely nverpowered the. Civil Authorities. Being mingled with emoted lulls apectators, the military force wino tbrhorne to he resorted to, front the extensive effusion of blood which, it .was evident,- must inevitably - have ensued,- A detailed-etittement of all the facts relating to. Ili* transaction was gent,by rte, under' the wed. of the AragistriPit, \(') the Secretary of state for the 'Ome DepartrotiO.; and the 011icera of the Revenue and Blockade Serykt lkiit their own representations to their respective Boards ; and I conceive it may fairly be assumed that no blame, wo consi dered as attaching to the Dover Itiofitti'atjs, Wein the tiovern ment not deeming it necessary to iti44itite any proceeding, or make Any animilverlioi!i. on their conduct. I cant& - CORO this letter, which I beg you to consider as a public one, and 'as addressed to you in your public character, without adverting to the indecent ;11usions in the Morning Heruhl of the 31st October towards the Noble Earl who holds ,the Vacient and honourable dice of Lord Warden of th Ports. Had the writer of the article taken tilt 'tot possible trouble to inform him self, he would lta"vt found that the Noble Earl bad no more to do with the appointment of 'Magistrates of the corporate towns of the Cinque Ports, than the venerable Archbishop of Canterbury. , I have the honour to'be, Sir, yOur very oh6lieiii JOHN SHIPDEAL Solicitor of `the Cinque Ports. , To Sir R. 13irnie s Police Megiatitte, &c. &c. &c. Bow-street. • CRINI CON. (Reported for " Tins &;.40;" lEkclitsively.) •Iwan it. HOOPER. Off .Saturdly hut, RonT. SAVAGE, Esq. Assessor, and a respleptuble- Jury, assembled at the York House, Bath, for the purpose of assessing the danrs:-, , ts :ih this case, which was aft• action for erimittat conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The . trefendant had suffered judgment to go by' default Damages were laid at 5,0001. F. WILLIAMS, with whom was Mr. SMITII, the ease for the plaintiff, a respectable. SolitAtor'ri'diYig in the city of 13ath. The Learned Couu+tcl s after alluding to the principal facts of the ease ) Awelt with - great animation upon the serions trAnre of the crime of adultery. " For my part" said Mr. Williaing, " whenever a case of this de stription comes into my.hands, lie the situatitslt of the offender high or low—be the offence fasitionahlt bt net .fashionable, I will never fail to hold np thit LrilnP to public odium and execration," lie oink' riot irbritifie 'thy cha racter more truly destifeable than that of a shameless adul terer, who meanly stale err the. firesi do of his neighbour, drink ing big wine, and robbing him of his domestic peace. Per haps, however, it would be asserted by the Counsel on the other side, that Mr. Webb had not treated his wife with KO per attention, and that she was an abandOned chabkter, there fore her husband could not fairly claith any damage: forthe loss of the services of such a woman. With respect to the first msertion ; he had evidence the most satisfactory and re spectable to show that Mr. and Mrs. Webb, up to the un happy ulfitir, had lived together in the utmost hartrfony abd happiness I and as to the latter; was it ntaftly, was' it gene rous, in the man who had rioted m the bosom of his victim, to turn round and reprbach her with that which bad made her a Iviretch and an outcast till the grave should cover her ? 'l3nt if she bad been guilty, did that lessen the guilt of the defendant ? What was the answer of one of the learned Judges, when such a plea was offered in mitigation ?- What !" said he, " because my wife is criminal, is it per.; .son to be allowed to mak! her still Snore so with impunity ? Does Aer character at all lessen the guilt of her seducer ? No, it does not; and I hold his conduct equally unpardon able in the sight both of God and man." After a few other general observations, the Learned Counsel proceeded to , call witnesses. The principal evidence of the adulterous cdhheetiOri Was Mt;. Edw. - Webb, Me won tf Mrs. Webb ! a young man of about bis'testimony it appeared, that on the Bth or December last he and hk father went to Box, a vil lage. near Bath, on some_ necessary business. - The day proving wet, they returned ttillr: Webb's house - , on Slim- hill much earlier than . usual: MK Webb, sett. remained downstairs, whilst his sOn went up stair's, where he heard the puke of creaking boots, and found his mother in the drawing-room much agitated, and busily engaged in lock ing the bed4oom door. There was wine and fruit upon the table. The youth suspected what wn.s going on, :but his mother entreated him net to say any thing to his father, "ma ha:wottld make such a Hoist about it." The young Man, however, did go to his father, to inform hint of the eireumaamie, did in the mean time the defendant, Hooper, (an entire stranger. to Mr. Webb) and another person of the name of Smallcombe, who had been enjoying them selves in the: drawing-room with Mrs. Webb, retreated to a bed-room up stairs, where they , locked themselves in. Mr. Webb, senior, and his son, the former armed with ; s4 cavalry sword, ,and , the latter with a- sword-stick, • then sallied, up stairs. Mr. Webb, however, threw aside . the :sword,. and said he would .give the intruder " a good _thrashing with a stick." The • doer was then broken . open, when . Hooper and his • eotnpailion made their escape, •but not before 'the former had received a few severe blowwfrom the-injured husband. This was the • only evidence to establish the fact of adultery ; but it appeared that Mrs. Webb had been . suspected of - having been criminally connected with a person. of the name of Bayntun, . formerly a clerk in the service of her, husband, and also with two- other profes sional ,gentlemen. It was also attempted to be proved that she had been in the habit of going out in man's clothes, but there was no evidence to establish this. - It was elicited, however that the plaintiff, since this unhappy affair, had sated dad Hooper and Smallcombe had met Mrs. Webb, mid a servant of the name of sacker (who had been deli . vered of a child), and that Hooper had. then , connection with the one, and Smallcombe with the other. Two or three most respectable witnesses swore that, up to this affair, Mr. and, Mrs. Webb had lived together in the utmost conjugal hoppiness•and comfort.. . Mr. Lunr.ow (with whom was Mr. PALMER)a addressed the Jury in the most energetic and able speech, in mitiga tion of damages. He.did not profess to cast the slightest stigma Upon the character of Mr: Webb, whose conduct, bit 411 occitsiong, had been that of au upright Man ' and af feetionate-husbanit:, nor did he Mean to defend the crime . o f adultery, which, so' far as he could judge, was as little prevalent in :Bath as in any other city in the empire ; but ile did think there ;were circumstances of mitiiation at tending . the present case, which onght. to induce the Jury to give merely nominal damages. If this had been one of those occurrences which were, alas ! but too com mon in this country, where the seducer enjoying the confidence of his friend, and the regard of his fa mily, basely employed these as the means o debeurhing his wife, and destroying his friend: B happines s for ,ever,, then, he would admit that the heaviest damages the jury could. allow would not be.more than the Offenre demanded, But when it was not 'proved that the parties were previously acipiainted-4hen it was not even shown thatflooper I,nc.w Mrs. Webb to have been a Married. woman, lie did think that theSe'facts'onght to weigh well with the jury in aw.ading their verdict. Thin look , at the weak and un satisfactory manner in Which his Learned Friend Mr. Wit hams had proved his ease. There was ' certainly no ac counting for tastes,' but he thought the introduCtiou of the son, as a witness ' against his mother, displayed very bad taste indeed, to say the least of it. In sonic eases, proptfr rteiymiinsion, on account of . the indispensible necessity of produeing such a witness to prove, the case, it might be overlooked ; but here, when the facts to which he had de posed 'could have been as easily established by the servant, 1 Aim :Racktr,` his attendance might surely have been ills- . poised with. With - respect to the evidence produced to show that Mrs. Webh,.up to this unhappy affair, had con ducted herself in all respects as a chaste and virtuous ' woman, would it not have' been as well to have called in :mute - of the neighboars,- instead of resorting to per ',otat living at Bristol, and - others who had halt rptritrOttliCiltioll . with the - parties, to show that she lived happily with her husband'? Could the Jury be lieve that a , Womati,'who had conducted herself in a way, t lv h . tZ t , li ti e d /1 1,, c , LI el y ~ b e ~ e Ai bi ted in a , common brothel, promiseuously—eould they, he repeated, Believe that she, upon the Sth of, December last, should have , heeu the meg. &lite anti virtuous Of wives, and that her husband. should not have suspected her ''' . W a s it RAY, that ' she thouhl have risen at nine o'clock on the l u a ti o d ri t fi l. iig t. t a l that a d r i t y teri ~,,t ik . so 10%1/into the atm, * f - • ' Mr; Hooper must iiitliftetdi h - „ e ffkt such a dump in so Alert a tohlzooifuti:riennuiftsetrieloxoeTtin,,psityshoofd women,have ;, o infamy, as had been proved? have :L ean a powerful 'MU to period. r There was a very excellent and just Latin motto, Nemo repent Unit hopissinua, no one ever became Eery base all once—it was done.l t iy Seepi; i tifeitfore it vras hot probable that Mi. 'Webb had descended by one step only. In his opi nion, also, the circumstance of the plaintiff throiving aside the sword, and threatening to give the defendant a good thrashing, shewed that Ins suspicions had been aroused, and it was, therefore, fur the Jrry to Aay, under all the facts, whlt.injte . y hint i'stztined in the loss of such a woman; it was certainly better to get rid of her at any price. With respect to the observations of his learned friend on the crime of adultery, 'he perfectly agreed with them, and if addressed to ,legislators abort to frame a law for its preVititiorti their Vvpuld bare beeh itaionable; but here, were the decision of a jury would neither dimi nish the offence, ..nor operate as a punishment upon the whole of thi omnium stockholders in this concern, he thought they • , were entirely uncalled for. In Conelnsion, he age of M rs . W e bb was n early would only state, that the 40, while that of his client was only 25 (a mere boy) and he would, therefore, leave the jury to imagine, which of the parties was likely to Make the fait advancei. The Jury, after a long Consultation, assessed the damages at 1004—The Cage excited very great interest, and lasted for some houra. .• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, ,SAT9tuAr j Nov. 18. At half-post three o'clock the SPEAKER entered the At four, having► taken the Chair, he counted the number of Me m bers present, and not more than seventeen appearing, be declared the 'louse adjourned to Monday (this day). MANCHESTER, SATURDAY EVEN/NG, NOV. IS. (FROM Mini CORRESFORDENT.) al'e sorry that we cannot give s, more favourable re presentation of the state of trade since Tuesday last, during which period scarcely any business has been doing, nor is the progpect at all promising for the future. Our market is become so exceedingly bail, and the depression so great, that the holders of piece goods find much diffi culty in forcing sales even at lower prices. The demand for water twist has been gradually declinin F and, within the last few days, hai nearly subsided. he inquiry for mule yarn, of every number, has been very limited, and the sales made inconsiderable. The stocks of mitertwist and mule yarns are upon the increase, and unless a market can be found to take off the redundant supply, we fear that even our more extensive spinners will be, from necessity, again compelled to stop their mills, or very Considerably reduce the hours of labour. In consequence of the heavy state of the market for piece goods, and for yarns,, cotton has been, through the past week, very dull. We cannot learn, however, that there is any alteration in prices. LISBON PAPERS. CHAMBER OF PEERS. Liseox, Nov. 7.—The Sitting wax occupied in discussing mat ters of form relatiim to the regulations for the proceedings of the Chamber. A Committee of several Members was appointed to draw up a plan 'for the purpose; the regulations presented by the Government being only provisional. At the close of the Sitting, the Conde da Lupa proposed, that an address should be drawn up, to be presented to his Majesty Don Pedro thanking him for having given the Charter to Portugal. This notice was approved unanimously, PRICES OF STOCKS THI: Bank Stock.,.i.p 263% 3 per Cent. Red '' ' "i113%%41 3 per Cent. Cone. St% '3li 4% 3% 3% per Cent. Ditto Red. !OA % r ii t tier Cerit. 'Sew 99 ' 14) Ditto, 1826 74‘ . Bank Long Ann 19%, 9-I& India Stock Dittolloticraii ' 42 40 pin. , • PRICES OF FOREIGN i Austrian Bonds, 5 per cent. — Brazilian Bonds 67 Buenos Ayres Bonds. Chiliall Bonds, 6 per ...ct. — Colombian Bonds — Ditto, 1824 ' 42 1 ,4 Danish, 3 per cont. ' ' ...413% . A Greek Bonds I. .... Ditto, 1826 ...,..19V4 20 19 1 4 YA Guatemala — Mexican Bonds Do. 16125 0 7',4 !6'e CHAMBER, OF DEPUTIES. In this Sitting, the Minister of Finance read his report, from which, it appeared, that, in the budget for the next year, there Was a deficit of 2,000 iinitos of leis, withoPt inerealiing the ex pences, especially that of the army; but that, notwithstanding its magnitude, tliere were urans to provide for it, without the direct contribution to which, he did not think it advantageous to have recourse. Ik, therefore, submitted to the Chadiber three pror sale, to follow the path marked put by the Charter, for the reading of which he requested that a day might lie flied. • It NV3% resolved, that the Report should be immediately . printed. The Minister of Finance. advised, that the accompanying docu ments and tables not having been examined by the Chamber ought not to receive its sanetion•Coe the present, and that beside, these" tables being extensive andintrieats, the printing would be very tediuus, and delay the publication of the Report which the Chamber desired to be speedy. It was agreed that the Report only should • be printed. A communication from the Minister of the Interior, informed the Chamber, by order of the Princess Regent, that her Royal Highness would rcCeive, this evening, the deputation appointed to announce to her that the Chamber was constituted: ' Some Menthol made various proposals for expressing the gra, titudeof the Chamber to the King Dori Pedro IV., for 'having given the Charter to the nation. Senhor Borges Carmen) proposed the erection of a public mo-- influent in one of the squares of the city, with a suitable in scription: Senhor -Pereira Carmo proposed, let, That Don Pedro IV. should, by a solemn act, signed by all the Members of the Cortes, be recognised as the legitimate King of Portugal, and the Al garves, awl their depentlenries. 2d. That a publiernenument be erected in his honour, with the following inscription i—" Au Restanradoe das Libertades Naeao Agradecida." Senhor Guerreirtirequested the President to separate the two proposals, as many Members might approve one and not the other. For his part, he wonld support the second, but thought the first inadmissible, as being unnecessary, since every thing-that had been dune was the most authentic proof that the nation ac knowledged Don Pedro IV. as its legitimate King. The first proposal was accordingly rejected, and the second ad mitted for further discussion. Among numerous motions made by different Members, Sen ior Aguir proposed that the Chambers should commence their [mportant labours, by the restoration of peace anti public tran pillity, and that legitimate measures should be adopted against the-disturbers of the public pea . ce. The, proposal was not supported. Two Committees are appointed, viz.—first, a Committee of Finance of nine members; first and second, a Committee of five members, to point out to the Chamber which are the laws that lare the most immediately necessary fur the full execution of the charter. Tasco,N, Nov.; 6.--The Gazette contains the sequel of the !speech Of . the Minister . of the Interior on the regulations for the proceedings of the Chambers prc4ented by the Government, and blamed by Conde Lenhares. CHAMBER OF PEERS, Nov. 6. LtsnoN, Nov. 6.—Nothing of interest' oecurred in • the Clim ber of Deputies. It was intionneeirthat the Princes's' Regent has selected the Bishop of Coimbra (llispo Reurea turio) to he President, and Senhor- Jose Antonio Unerreiro, to. be Viee.President. of the Chamber, who accordingly took their places. Thanks were re turned to the President ad interr:r, the (Annie S. Pau, after which the Members seVerally took the oath as follows : I swear to be invio lably faithful to the Roman Catholic Apostolic Religion, to the King, to the Nation, and the 'Constitutional' Charter ; to contribute to the utmost of My poiver,: in Making jwit and Wise laws, which May establish the prosperity of the peitple, the gleiry of the King, and the splendour of the State. Thi: solemn act hieing concluded, the President declared the Chandler constitu ted. Mr. Sheriff Farebrother will this week give a grand dinner on the occasion of his having been elected an Alderman of the city of London. It is said that about 120 persons have been invited. Arrived at Gibb's Hotel, Regent Bridge, Edin burghL :—sir Philip and ae:" Durham ;- Sir Philip Carteret Sil veger, Hart. ; J o h n wedderimm, E a+ ; Lady Helen Wedderburn and Family; Grant, B. ft , ;B. Stinith, Esq. ;A. Alsnougall, Ea+ ; Joshria Hewitson, E N . ; John.lhickimiltaw, Esq. ; Clayton, _Esq. ; 'Ewa * m ac i n tosh, Esq. ; C a p ta in: - Carnegie; Andrew titein, E 1 . ; J ohn pereiv o, R. N .. ; Captain Carmichael. Set off from the same pla t e—WilliatO Francis Hunter Arran dell, Esq. and Lritly ; Godolphin fluoter Arrandell, and Mimics FraneeS, Mary Am e y, and Sane Arrandell, and William 1, 1'.. 01 '. A . r;racnii-114eirillit.',;(1,1.0,1; e T rip h , enz i. o ; ak A e4 i , 01r4114.0.vaeynd;Lcantlypta; j E ti . s i i i t n w rb e e n r : - Giptain Jeffrey and John Jeffrey, bVilli arn Fre nch; Ea q'' ; John Morrison„ Esq. of Atieliintoul ; Edwards, Esq. ;- William Dean, Ks+ ; John Pritchard, Esq. ; Lielltooot-Colonelstewart ; I ll'illia►n 'hum a t•rt a nizi eur out y l P. • Davie, 'En+ ; CAPtisin ; Itiontagn o Johnson, ;I[ctmry. 4 nderson, Esq. ; Dr. Wondburn and Colonel, • Clerk ; Barclay 'Whitehead, Esq.; o ° l ' ALT ,; J" ith Drysthile, EN. ; Janteg Apß ra ire, Esq. ; Edward H. Genner, ' req. ; Rambla Frusier, big; ; Di. Haig; 4adrelli Henderson, • 'Del. ;•JeMes Lennox, Esq. . • ' 'arse LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20, 1826. His i\TAJESTY has'arrived in town this afternoon, and 'holds a Council at three o'clock, at which the Speech to be ; tdelivered to both Houses of Parliament, to-morrow, will he finally arranged. We received last night the • Paris Papers, of Thurs day and Friday, and the Mile dated Saturday morn ing. They are entirely destitute ,of political news, i • we except accounts from Constantinople via Odessa, which state that the Divan have had several meetings r of ac tl c t o e u a n d ts di .v ti i o a n ß al u c c o h i a i: oenn the von ie s a u t bj li e c k t e roffnt a l l i l e n ratificationrea, which state that the SULTAN had ratified the convention. The Eloile, as usual, contradicts as the t t s severa i l reports propagated by the other papery, u .recal of the Ambassador at Madrid, &c. The French Funds, no t wi thstanding the great rise in the English market, have rather declined. 'We subjoin a few extracts : (From the Etnile of Friday.) ELBERFELD, Ocr. 24.—The Directors of the German Ame 7 rican Trading Company have received very pleasing news from Mr. Ward, the English Minister at Mexico, who has visited the Mining Districts, and particularly tho;e of the Company. The position of your Mines,' says Mr.'Ward, appears to be hotter chosen ; ambit they have pot .130 celebrated a name as those of Guanainto and Real del Monte, that are worked by the English, you lows not, on the other band, to struggle, as they have, against practical difficulties which require the advance of enormous eapi tale. In all your views the combination of the greatest economy, with the perfect knowledge of whatever can contribute to a sue ,cessful result, is remarkable, and I look upon the result, us re ,spects Chico, to be already decided. (4 course Ido not speak of the' unreasonable expectations that were entertained at the com mencement of those euterprizes in Mexico. I look to profits which are very considerable, when viewed in relation to the capital ad vanced, and I feel convinced that, before the end of the year, you will begin to be sensible of these. Paats, Nov. I6.—Yesterday, the most satisfactosy news was received with respect to the health of the Marquis de Msisonfort. 'Repeated bleedings have produced the happiest effect, and every thing announces the hope of a speedy cure. " Letters have been received from Moscow, written by superior 'officers in the army of Georgia, which state, that the , Battalion of the Grenadiers of Moscow, the same which figured, in the tumult at St. Petersburg'', on the 22d of Deeernblir last, when they were seducqd to revolt, have particularly distinguished them selves in all the actions which have hitherto taken place with the Persians. It is even-said, that a report has been made to the Emperor Nicholas by the General-in-Chief, Yermaloff, in which-he passes the highest eulogium upon this Battalion. The heirs of Schiller are negociating with several booksellers, for the publication of a complete edition of the works of that Poet. Reinter has already offered 70,000 rix-dollars. (From the Et oil, of Saturday.) ODUSSA, OCT. 27.—The news from Constantinople of the l9th state that several meetings of the Divan bad taken place on the subject of the ratification of the additional Convention of Aker mann. The general opinion, however, was, that the Sultan, to whom the Mufti cannot refuse a Fetwa, would finally accede to the ratification. None of those Chiefs of the Janissaries who would have dared to oppose it, have survived the catastrophe of the 15th 'June; and the Porte is in so very 'critical a situation, : that it has absolutely no other resource left. Russia has, in the mean time, obtained,, in the midst of peace, by the convention of Akermann, advantage which render the influence of the Porte over its ,three greatest. Christian provinces altogether illusory, .without its being possible to impute to that mighty Power either views of ambition or projects of conquest This event is 'the 'first step towards the' civilization of Aloldavii, Wallachia, and Servia, without the ' employment of democratic means. It is very possible that the Porte may have no confirmed intention of observing the convention, but that would only render its situa tion worse. BUCI,IA REST, OCT. 28.—A courier, who left Constantinople on the 23d, and who hat just passed through this place, brings intelligence that the Sultan had ratified the convention of Aker.: mann. 'lt iti said that the Turkish Commissioners who are in this city are only'wniting for the ratification to return to Con- stantinnple. PARIS, Nov. 17.—The Quotidienne this day announces the revel of onr Ambassador' at , 'Madrid, which is just as true doubt tees as the tree] of ths . Ambassador at London, announced in the 4Vemorial .lorcfelizis, or as the extraordinary courier of the Aria torque, "who carried to Madrid the recognition of the South Ame rican Republics by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, or as the death of the Reis Effendi in the German journals. When some of the " papers blame tie for not answering them, we think we have a right to demand from them something which they have not a hundred times befiire repeated. In truth, they very much require the de bates in the Chambers to freshen a little their worn-out argu nitnts, and put a truce to their continued inventions. The Portuguese urgent has fixed the pecuniary allowance to be received by each Deputy while the Climbers are actually assem bled. Those of Portugal and the Algarve* are to receive 8,750 reie (about 1/.) per day. Their journey to and froM the capital is to be eatimated at six league* for e ach day. The Deputies from the Wanda of Madeira, the Azores, Cape Ve 11 ) &c., win receive a proportionate remuneration. r these wa tlia s a ti fte n t " ing .) of the Ministers at The Council t f the house of M. de Villete. 1 1 11 ten> o'clock N Per eples, '7Bf. 80c ; Spa- Yesterday aftern ( o ll on “ , 11" until five. Ceuta., 991. 85c. ; Lean, 5•l f. ve per Cents. 99E 85e Three C e nts, Nov. 17.- 1 " - per '7IE es Hi. de• • ' • , ten ,„ d e Nap' 7 2 • , Spanish Loin, 5Si. SOr. ; - litr'..T:wcrj‘(:n.tits)77sll.,tficT, ; 11(tie.—ntesrivdee re cehed last night Lisbon Ga- e tt cs to the 7th instant, extra cts of which arc given in another column. however, nothi ng They c ontain, but the proceedings in t h e tV, V Chambers, which are not of an interesting na ture. The PRINCESS REGENT had selected the Bishop of Coimbra to be President, and Seidler J. A. GiIERREIRO to be Vice President, of the Chamber of Peers. • The Minister of nuance read his report in the Chamber of Deputies, by which it appeared that in tire' Midget for the next year there was a deficit of 2000 Cctritos of Reis, but that there were means to meet this deficiency without additional -direct contri butions. A proposal that an instrument should he prepared and signed by all the Members of the Cortes, acknowledging DON PEDRO as King of Portugal, bad been rejected as unnecessary ; but another, for pressing the national gratitude, by erecting a monu ment to him as the - restoret of the liberties of Portuga4 was admitted to discussion. This Mail was brought to Falmouth by the Magnet packet brig, which left Lisbon on the 9th. Our Pri vate letters to the Bth, by this opportunity, describ e the tranquillity of Lisbon as being undist urbed, and the accounts from the provincei as satisfactory. We also received last night Brussels Papers to the 17th inst. ; their contents are uninteresting, if we ex cept reports from St. Petersburgh of the Russian General YERMALOif having gained further succ over the Persians. A 74-crtin ship, called the Ira -0 • el tcr ~ n the 11th inst. passedalone, the great can Zoo o of • . the North Holland for the Nieuwe Diep, being I first ship of the line that had passed along that cans • We - • subjoin a few miscellaneous extracts :-..-, -. at Bitussm, Nov. 16.—The Government intends to erect Amsterdam large buildings to serve as an entrepot, to be entirel7 detached from'any habitation, and intweessible to robbers ; but it is not easy to find a suitable spot. The difficulty woul d be . erect a building large enough for 80,000 pipes of wine now t r . the cellars, and some thousand lasts of corn, especially the latter, as we shall soon he obliged, like England, to adopt a mote Tuttle` rate system for the importation of corn, as we do not 1" ( 17 eSseS , enough for our own consumption. " This," says the Jovroa 1 f In Belgique, " refers, of course, to the northe rn provincees, f or d seniui southern part of the kingdom will, we think , never 'icd to money abroad to find our own cora." liastuti eon, Nov. 11 .—The English Mails of Ol the " e 31 at 4 October and 34 of November, are w he! still due ;we tuPl"' e im . ll ; trary winds have detained them. edo not kno n ot, 8414 in w u st steam-bout kit London on the 4th— W it should seem have already arrived, the weather having since be" " Im. ~,a Pith Nov. 13.—The English Mails of the 31st ()rebel, sa • of November, arrived this mornin. I l alf- The Hylton Jolliffe steam-boat g arrivi-sl this afternoon 4 t , he past two, and the Sir Edward' Banhes at half-past thrt?, latter in 53 hours front London Sr. PrreaSIMIRGIf, Nov. I._Accounts from MosroW flit " ! Courier arrived here on the 2lst, front the Persian frontier, wi despatches to his Majesty. The General Yerrnaloff report!' that, shortly before his departure, the Persians had bee* a g its defeated by our troops, and driven from several places widi v: loss." AUGSBURG, Nov. 1 1.—The - Observer of Trieste sa yi--" Captain, who arrived here on the Slat of October, iti thittl''', ° days from Alexandria, relates that Captain Ivannvieh,conn ea6 of the, Austrian merchant - brig Br uto, was met 150 m iles 6 1 Alexandria by a Greek pirate, who trea t ed him in the roost cru t f m anner, anti robbed him of several bales of tobacco, a pol'ileu gold wire, and the effects of the passengers and crew. We have received likewise this forenoon, the 6 ` 1 : 1 zette de Milan, of the s th instant , a nd the ,froiril of the. Two Skilies of the 27th ultimo. A ~hock an earthquake was experienced in Cala bria, ou the 16th of last month. We give a few extracts, th" they contain nothing important : ofi ,inters at foreign Courts, *. r. . Castro to the mission to th u_g liis Majesty having resolved to make some changes in I 1 . % ~ ii :6. l, struts, OCT. - _ .., mano, who is called to other functions . Yrida? Prince of Ramona to that to bit Catholie Illaje_s_tp!„, ,Marquis de Gagliati, to that to the Kit% of SoriliniA. 117i0;: jettyilas been further pleased to loofa th • e following Pl'ln,cala i, —The • Chevalier D. Castro Itieffo del rineipi de Castor,. ti jo appointed Minister Plenipoter '. v t `appointedl4.ing of r ia f f' a i 0 commander D. Paolo d' Ambirtlar.' Cbarg g ( I . .-- o r to the Ottoman Porte, in the en° " eh l'er P OniioPP" 7 °- room of evs i Thei f the Commander, D '4" ' now Secretary a,, D. incenso Remota, , . ,s to the COlO Government in the Sicily, is appointed Charge-'1 of Netherlands . . „ i r , veil On the 16thof . this month, at half-1 eleven C. , , Ao , smart shock of an earthquak e was felt in the commune' of r'' thor (Calabria Ultra Prima) ' which fll wed b1..1°.° , wait soon o 0 0 0 equally violent. These' shocks were felt in all the adineente coto to be th . try, and the regularity of their motion is suliposell of their having occasioned no damage whatever. fettiEnecl: inipopileis.e:l of t '-'' 115toltr a i , " the t b•r),, krettii moment expected in ou I al. g' cryttAi.oSlA, - , _n, Sir Frederick Adam, the Lord nigh CAinitnissiouer, 1 . 6 . 'o f Corfu, it a k r n tal is impatiently looked for ,hy all ranks of peourl, i t he f • hOw greatly he feels . interested in the prosperity of so!usu w an d s , w hich owe to his cure and to his jinlicsioll'irb if wise measures a great part of their -present prospe.rili ra ve ►~' ent of 's return front Engl3ello4 they proved by the strict administration of justice, the ttnprovere, fho agriculture, the activity of cowwerce , the new roanufatort. , roads, public instruction, &e. 1 &W el _ This Island has the gun' fortune to have for its resiu elL i i, 01 Napier, who perfectly fulfils the object of his mission, Anr useful to the inhabitants, by whom he is highly tolteen3nedisys--"It) Illrtaw, Nov. 4.--EXcHAKUZ 014' LortnoN.'""9" Lire 14 cent. for a pound sterling. ha`e e a late h u P r a ti p li e s rs f to reacheielhilsf:it orenoon, from ~'htclt `Ye ~ve he ~ekne lowing extracts. The Groningen uiazcar, still v. 6 0 .. the Fr sa memelancholythereeo rtfon, GrnninF eathe the 14th, .it g etd the inbabir e ' tal n a number of deaths in that tit) wag 75 viz , rods wlio persons, number which dues . not realise the hope n "" a " t f r od ' tl: 4 e 6 G 3 er P ri e r i a: The ccounss,oo of te r rtained of a diminution of the worts/RP , F , Friesland are also afflicting. At f,ngevirden, of P°PI tl A appears that from the loth to Isol Inclutore!co t ifie l l e e re rrakti.o w e re i has above t arrived here O i sick erc ir, i o mot cA3ls' aus tiur BaniastA, Nov. .114 . - - M. h Eogli°4 eteiormrsivieb_eawratonl n .in i ce n ht i l i i, t 6fi t o e lad e t:. f l o ivooi r oet t i, l ioth l e e roo r ' et eli as m ef i ar li o i r o f i the of id il is o tr i tram:et SO, ' 7 o f hi The co Friesland li has addressed a long and melancholy rePert ode' ILvencly the new Governor of the novince, dated Lee foip od the iieo2,:inct.r.he report tleseribes , the distress which 10° from ~I°, report v e disorder which has carried off tut many vle t i' 4 4 , d e Att 4 d aanr a r t d o tt n ia t h ' t n re l e i r y e es t t. e i t s ' e g i tu t a is a h y r o y d taopwßia:ciesJ°Sef slanta: present situation of 11l places respectively. r to of A' to . eery , few places where any abatement, wormy taken place. 15 , Se e ' t 4 TieZl at Customs.h he t at t.i.ey and. to-day. It is said 'bat oi ds e " i „ arrested is six an d usal r fr 4 area os s ot , 1/. 40; d l grtThbhooeffor°Seffiep:tese.r,tethwillie:tlFatiol:f'Zllktleite dacziptall':Bsraioteingtaterewbr;aegitlost:lg:Trietlil:::llls(4::' 1 ;till': escort of an *nicer t!l* infantry. ) i ; 1° • Ali r> Nov. , 17.--Lachange on Lontloot 41 27 : 41 I: t eo 3 l 9 v . i s t•: " . t. )---"'-'-------. ----; A ----------- 'll°lll h, T _IESTOMS --CT.--It is not J olter t .g. c „„ u ..known,t at, by the last insolvent Act, 4 debtor, Wit! . ' to can itobtain the day rules on any.pretenes ,whati*er_s;_nted to hu v T:.pnon cannot, , under any orcometitnces, .be gro ill them until the day of hearing his case, 'whey, in order to cb t % veld he must produce a reprco.eutatinn of 4 medical man that 1 . 1 , 1 . it , thi or 110 Would he endangered by Id* lOuger residence 101' walls of a jail." , forego i ng '' r , yv fle a A eoutemporary. gives um - 48 - ne , it ge covert'. Some month" bsele:lie published this .. --,ft,-1,,,a1,.._,,, , , , ~,, o wl ,hunt, pget,lier, rig) foul Oly #o9l4llts oi sw - DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock —. Old Annuities — 'ate Dg to Ex. Itiiii, xlrqo 24.. ii;...22 2:3 pm- Ditto No a, - * lO t on. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial —B Balk for Opening — India tbr Account — Cons. for Account llli 2!,', 4!,:, nit' :31 , 4‘ 4 13'3 AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Neapolitan, 182 i Peruvian Bonds Portuguese Bonds Bl 80% Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New 97 Russian, New, 3p. c. FIVA s fiVi Spanish, 1821 13% UM 13 ---, 1823 — French Rerfteli tip a —f. Exchange 3 per cent. --Exchange 251 60c. PRICES•OF SNARES AT ONE 0-CLOCK!_ Paid. Per Share. • British Iron Mining Company £3214 6 Columbian Mining Company l5 7Y, 2 Paseo Peruvian Mining Company ~r •,, 15 IW, 1 United Mexican Mining Company,• . e . 25 15 14 , ' 14 United General Gas Company ig Siii% PRICE OF IRIB/1 STOCKS, NOV. 17. Bank Stock — St. Patrick Instil'. (per share)... Gov. Stock, 3% per cent.... 614% Royal Irish Ditto — Ditto, New I. per Cent, Gov. Deb. 3;', per cent a..,..... SIN liibcrniall Bank — Consols, 3 per cent --:-.Q. Provintial Ditto Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent. Mining Co of Ireland Ballast Office Deb. 4 per cent. Commercial Buildings — HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 57 minutes after 5. I Evening ....... 21 minutes after 6.